| I've been thinking about adding a PRAGMA that would cause this | behavior. Another option is added a keyword to the end of BEGIN, | for example "BEGIN EXCLUSIVE" or something like that.
The "BEGIN EXCLUSIVE" approach is very attractive.
That would work fine for my purposes. I'm wondering if there would be value in also providing 'BEGIN RESERVED' to allow existing readers to continue reading and to also potentially succeed more often (in cases where there are existing readers)?

